[GRLUG] Google and Kansas City

[Bob Kline]

That's basically it.  More performance,
in the most general sense, will cost more,
but it's up to the individual to decide what
they want to spend their money on.  It's
no different than how people decide what
kind of car to drive, or how big a TV they
have to have.

For those in the boonies, some chose to
live where it's not economic to run the
faster wires.  But there's still HughesNet.

   -- Bob


On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Joseph McLaughlin <jwm8351 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Are you advocating Government involvement?
> Should the market place relegate this fair city to the bottom of the heap?
> And why do cows need high speed Internet?
>
> There is still a bug in the program must use RAID!
>
>
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> I have a real, genuine fear that we're going about this with a
> *severe* case of myopia.
>
> I had difficulty navigating the web in 2007 on dial-up, with image
> bugs, large banner ads, huge JavaScript loads, large CSS loads,
> fifteen 5k or so avatar images whenever you visit a forum thread--even
> auto-play video video advertisements...Imagine how bad it is now.
> There are places within twenty miles of here which can't get cable,
> DSL, or even a reliable cell signal.
>
> Those involved in designing web services purchase very high-end
> network connections, get accustomed to those connections, and then
> *design* for those connections. It's a really bad self-reinforcing
> loop. Much like how software got slower as computers got faster, but
> it's much harder to raise the median Internet connection speed than it
> is to raise the median computer speed.
>
> There is a not-insignificant fraction of the population in America
> itself which is still going to be completely out of reach of even
> 10Mb/s Internet commercial services in ten years, and people gripe
> that our municipality isn't acting like those which take out a 25-year
> mortgage on their own essential services infrastructure to "give" us
> access to gigabit broadband connections below cost.
>
> I can't be the only one who's noticing this. In order for a
> bound-to-the-Internet economy to be sustainable, Internet services
> need to be virtually ubiquitous, and essential activities need to be
> manageable on lower-end Internet connections.
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/google-bestows-1gbps-fiber-network-on-kansas-city-kansas.ars
> > This gives a good summary about
> > why Google is doing this.  It thinks
> > it needs higher speeds to support
> > future projects.  And it clearly sees
> > that the existing big providers are
> > digging in, not providing higher speeds,
> > and not above not letting others do
> > it either.
> > It will be interesting to see how this
> > plays out.  Chattanooga, TN, already
> > has a 1Gbps system.
> >    -- Bob
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